tapeline
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Either the two lads had measured or counted wrong in their advance with the tapeline or, as Phil concluded, the distance was only approximate.
From The Auto Boys' Vacation by James A. (James Andrew) Braden
These facts Tom ascertained with the use of a small tapeline which he carried in his pocket.
From Around the World in Ten Days by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
Upon the original outline were then drawn all such details as coping stones, chimneys, trapdoors, etc., the tapeline being used where necessary to establish positions.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols
If at 60 inches, measured with a tapeline from your eye to the book, then your eye number is 60, which is remarkably good.
From Woodland Tales by Ernest Thompson Seton
In the earlier work the lines of the walls, so far as they could be determined, were run with a compass and tapeline and gone over with a level.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols
